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Example sentences for "could count"

  • Hadrian had striven more earnestly than his predecessors to raise the fallen dignity of the Senate, and still he could count securely on its consent to any measure.

  • He could count on the faithfulness of his Slav brothers, Wends and Servs, but they were timid and not artful at all.

  • He understood that he could not show himself near Nossen, and in the meantime he felt it would relieve the Countess if she knew he was still free and that she could count on him.

  • Very often acting as lieutenant to his uncle, he was practically master of the castle, and Cosel knew well that she could count on him, although she seldom deigned to look at him.

  • In view of its continuance he called upon Mackinnon and inquired whether at any time, if the occasion should arise, he could count upon an advance of salary.

  • He could count absolutely on Rickman's devotion.

  • He could count on about half an hour of this illusion before Flossie appeared.

  • He could count on five pounds at Michaelmas, the quarterly rent of the furniture in the little house at Ealing.

  • In all, Geordie Graham found they had just twenty men on whom he could count.

  • Among them were three on whom he believed he could count to back him in a pinch.

  • Among them was the veteran Nolan, on whom he knew he could count.

  • The Government sent General Gordon to the Soudan on an absolutely hopeless mission for any one or two men to accomplish without that support in reinforcements on which General Gordon thought he could count.

  • The Dara garrison as a fighting force was valueless, and with the exception of his small bodyguard, still on the road from Fascher, Gordon had not a man on whom he could count.

  • She was the person whom he knew best in the house of Molière; he could count on her to do them the honours some night when she was in the "bill," and to make the occasion sociable.

  • He knew he could count on half the amount from his grandfather; could possibly ask Fairford for a small additional loan--but what of the rest?

  • But you've told me all along I could count on a rise before August.

  • Probably, as the queer formula went, his "honour" was safe: he could count on the letter of her fidelity.

  • The messenger assured me that I could count on his master's support.

  • He replied that my affairs were his own, and that I could count on his secrecy.

  • Without counting my physical attractions, I had plenty of money, and I was not afraid of spending it; and so I thought I could count on an easy victory.

  • He could count by the dozen friends of his who had been killed; some of them shot with revolvers like rats, in the depths of some dungeon, others executed by firing squads.

  • The Allies, facing this overwhelming offensive, could count only on their regular forces and those which the recent intervention of the United States might bring.

  • He could count on influential friends capable of helping the boy if he wanted to work.

  • In the morning light new and important details were revealed, such as a strange series of dykes of a prismatic shape, of which I could count as many as seven.

  • From the point of vantage on which I stood I could count as many as eight of those huge lines of waves.

  • As soon as he got scent of this strange doctrine, he caused two ladies, upon whom he could count, to be admitted to Saint Cyr, as if to become disciples of Madame Guyon.

  • I had 60 well-bred sows, young and old, and I could count on them to farrow at least three times in two years.

  • It cost $2230, and gave me stable room enough for the waiting stock, so that I could count on forty milch cows all the time, when my herd was once balanced.

  • The Kyrles lived in the city, but they were foot-free, and we could count on having them often.

  • He could count as many of them as five before the bunch turned and swung lazily back again, when he could count as high as twelve; sometimes when the ship rolled heavily he could count to twenty.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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